Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux of Harrowden

Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux of Harrowden (25 April 1509-October 1556) was an English nobleman and poet during the English Renaissance.

Biography
Thomas Vaux was born in 1509 to a noble family, and he was married at the age of fourteen and a member of Parliament by the age of 20. He became a familiar figure at the court of King Henry VIII, where his poetry was linked with that of Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. However, as he was a Catholic, he was unhappy with the King's divorce and the turn toward Protestantism, and he retired from public life while still in his tewnties and withdrew to his country estates.